Tegn en appelsin

‘When I start to write an email, my email program offers to write it for me, because I’m obviously not competent enough to write it myself. When I open an email, my email program offers to understand it for me, because I’m obviously not competent enough to understand it myself. When I write this newsletter, my writing program offers to write it for me, because I’m obviously not competent enough to write it myself. Fuck that, I am and you are to

Når man er barn er det nemt at tegne. Men efterhånden som vi bliver ældre får vi at vide, at vi ikke er gode nok, at andre er dygtigere eller at det vi laver ikke er så pænt.
Og det gælder ikke kun det at tegne – flere og flere af de måder vi skaber os på bliver hånet og set ned på, i dag ikke mindst gennem teknologi, her især AI, der påstår at kunne tegne, skrive, lave musik og ja: Tænke bedre end os mennesker.
Hvilket så betyder, at vi bør holde op med at gøre noget?
Nej!, mener brevkasseredaktør og designer Mike Monteiro i et fantastisk rørende svar til en læser kaldet ‘How to draw an orange’ – sådan tegner du en appelsin.
Spørgsmålet lyder: Jeg holdt op med at tegne for nogen. tid siden – nu er alt trist. Hvad skal jeg gøre? Og det korte svar er: Tegn løs!

‘We give our hearts to people and places that do not deserve them. We should stop, because there are people and places that do deserve them. And we should fill each other’s homes with drawings of oranges.

We are born with whole hearts. We are born with hearts that ache with possibility. We are born with curious, loving, accepting hearts. These weren’t lost, they were taken from us. We can be who we were meant to be again.

Fix your hearts.’